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  1. Re:We need a law reinforcing capitalism on Printer Makers Are Crippling Cheap Ink Cartridges Via Bogus 'Security Updates' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait, are you saying you want to own the means of production?

  2. Re:How about not blowing away work? on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    That's all fine and dandy, until your servant becomes part of a botnet and starts DDOSing me.

  3. Re:Even annoys my teen on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think he's blaming the user, just making a polite request. If anything, he's blaming Slashdot for the bug (correctly).

  4. That's odd, one of the reasons I like systemd is that it *doesn't* eat process output. With sysvinit, non-syslog output would end up on /dev/console, scroll up and be lost forever (especially relevant for headless servers). With systemd's journalctl I can easily review the output of any process together with its syslog logs. There's plenty of things about systemd that annoy me but that ain't one.

  5. Hindsight on Why Typography Matters -- Especially At The Oscars (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 1

    Always 20/20.

  6. Re:Yeah. Was:Definitely nah on 'Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Added irony: With pointer and memory allocation bugs, the problems are at least reproducible. Can't say that about threading bugs.

    Sounds like you never had to debug a use-after-free bug.

  7. Re:Opera is not owned by Qihoo on Opera Max Turns To Nagware, Now Prompts Users To Re-enable It Every 12 Hours (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Qihoo are also the owners of Startcom and Wosign. Oh dear.

  8. Re:They can supena the certificate's private key on Encryption App Signal Wins Fight Against FBI Subpoena and Gag Order (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Assuming Signal uses some form of (elliptic curve) diffie-hellman, subpoenaing the private key will not allow the FBI to decrypt a single message. And since Moxie Marlinspike designed this system you can be sure it does.

  9. Re:Firefox Hello on Firefox 49 Arrives With Improvements (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    The core functionality (WebRTC) is still there, they just removed their frontend. You can still use WebRTC in Firefox (or Chromium/Chrome) by visiting https://opentokrtc.com/. Chromium may be a better bet if you're behind a crappy firewall, because it supports TCP as well as UDP (Firefox only supports UDP).

  10. Re: What if I am an Ubuntu hater, too? on Windows 10 Haters: Try Linux On Kaby Lake Chips With Dell's New XPS 13 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    We host an apt repository with a few packages for a bunch of debian and ubuntu releases. Of course you have to target the right dependency set, but that's true even when you target a specific version of either OS.

    I was just miffed by the remark that Debian would not support PPAs, when in fact the whole technical groundwork is actually Debian's and all Ubuntu did was build a thin command interface over it and suddenly gets credited for the whole invention.

  11. Re: What if I am an Ubuntu hater, too? on Windows 10 Haters: Try Linux On Kaby Lake Chips With Dell's New XPS 13 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They also have extended the dpkg system with PPAs which (last time I checked) Debian did not support out of the box.

    PPAs are basically just extra entries in /etc/apt/sources.list. That's a Debian feature, not an Ubuntu one. I certainly do appreciate the fact that Canonical offers easy and free hosting for personal repositories, but saying that Debian doesn't support PPAs is a bit weird.

  12. Second google hit for "ubuntu maas" (for me) was http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/maas. But yeah, it would have been nice if the link was included in the original question.

  13. Re:So glad I missed out on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was going to upgrade, just to see what it was like. First I tried to take a clone of hard drive, but somehow, during that process, my motherboard died and so I was without my laptop while it got repaired.

    Your computer chose death over Windows 10.

  14. The cake is a lie, though.

  15. Yahoo! are too incompetent to do anything evil with his mail.

  16. Re:One 16:9 monitor, One 5:4 monitor. on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? · · Score: 1

    You may like the Eizo EV2730Q.

  17. Re: And Skynet Goes Berserk on Google Is Developing an AI Kill Switch (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

  18. Re:Have any of you tried... on Skype For Linux: Dead? Or Just Resting? · · Score: 1

    Tried that, but the wholy thing feels ‘clunky’ and often fails in various ways. Nowadays I just use Firefox Hello, which has the added advantage that all that is needed on the other side is a web browser (any web browser that understands webrtc).

  19. Re:Healthy != Profitable on Fruit Drinks Aren't Much Better For You Than Soda: Study (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    Only the Food Industry could make fruit unhealthy.

    :(

  20. Re:"Seattle Hundreds" suck on Tech Professionals' Aggravations Rise, But So Do Salaries (dice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    WTF is with this thread? Is Dice paying people to generate fake comments now?

  21. Re:Not in the PPA on Browser Tests Show Edge Fastest, But Weak On Standards (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Finally, I don't think Unix (any variant) uses apt-get? There might be one but I haven't met it. It has, of course, been a while since I have played with it.

    Well, there's Debian GNU/kFreeBSD but that isn't an official Debian architecture just yet (unfortunately).

  22. Re:Screwing employers on Study: Women Less Likely To Be Shown Ads For High-paid Jobs On Google · · Score: 1

    To defend you from other lawyers?

  23. Keep calling me a "consumer" on Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and I'll keep blocking your ads.

  24. Re:Still no opportunistic encryption on Mozilla Begins To Move Towards HTTPS-Only Web · · Score: 1

    True. There's also WoSign (which uses the same root CA but is less restricted), but their OCSP-server is in China which will make the first connection a bit slow.